[TheCipher]

I know all that. It is just the same old line the trolls trot out. Actually I think he was referring to the statement made by the clerk about the COLB, not the official statement made by the Director about the BC on file. They always like to quote the first part of the clerks statement ( actually it isn't even an offical statement, just an email ).

When the birth certificate arrived from the Obama campaign it confirmed his name as the other documents already showed it. Still, we took an extra step: We e-mailed it to the Hawaii Department of Health, which maintains such records, to ask if it was real. “It’s a valid Hawaii state birth certificate,” spokesman Janice Okubo told us.

But they always leave out the second part :

“When we looked at that image you guys sent us, our registrar, he thought he could see pieces of the embossed image through it.” Still, she acknowledges: “I don’t know that it’s possible for us to even say beyond a doubt what the image on the site represents.”

Therefore they never said it was genuine.

[Polarik]

"It’s a valid Hawaii state birth certificate,” spokesman Janice Okubo told us."

Even that statement is bogus. What Okubo said, and I quote:

"It looks just like my birth certificate."

Factcheck's false statement is like saying that because the moon looks bigger when it's closer to the horizon, it must be closer to the Earth then.

[El Gato]

I know all that. It is just the same old line the trolls trot out. Actually I think he was referring to the statement made by the clerk about the COLB, not the official statement made by the Director about the BC on file

Nope, the link on the forum went to the statement of DR. Chiyome Fukino, the Director of Health for the State of Hawai‘i which was:

“There have been numerous requests for Sen. Barack Hussein Obama’s official birth certificate. State law (Hawai‘i Revised Statutes §338-18) prohibits the release of a certified birth certificate to persons who do not have a tangible interest in the vital record.

“Therefore, I as Director of Health for the State of Hawai‘i, along with the Registrar of Vital Statistics who has statutory authority to oversee and maintain these type of vital records, have personally seen and verified that the Hawai‘i State Department of Health has Sen. Obama’s original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures.

“No state official, including Governor Linda Lingle, has ever instructed that this vital record be handled in a manner different from any other vital record in the possession of the State of Hawai‘i.”

Notice she does not say she or registrar has seen the original certificate, but rather that she has "seen and verified" that one exists in the state's records.